First Fridays Youngstown-February 7th "Date with an Artist"

Name: First Fridays Youngstown-February 7th "Date with an Artist"
Start: 2025-02-07T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-07T19:30:00-05:00
Location: The Butler Institute of American Art

Schedule

Fri Feb 07 2025 at 04:30 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Butler Institute of American Art | Youngstown, OH

Please join us:
What: First Fridays Youngstown-February 7th "Date with an Artist"
When: February 7, 2025, 4:30-7:30PM
What: Enjoy an evening of Art in the ambience of evening lighting, music, food, drinks, mingling, and a "Date with an Artist" where you'll have the opportunity to get acquainted with the Artists of the Butler Institute of American Art through a docent-guided tour or a self-guided tour using the gallery guides provided. Show your love by taking a cutout heart and placing it next to your favorite work at the museum.
Featured art at The Butler Institute of American Art:
Black History Month Exhibition: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. “The Art is on the Wall, Not the Posters” in Segall Print Gallery in Butler North.
85th Area Artist Annual Exhibition
Charlee Brodsky- "The Audacity of the Mundane"
Pastel Society of America's 52nd Annual Exhibition- "Enduring Brilliance!"
Art activities will align with the Sally Weber & Craig Newswanger "Entangled Attraction" light installation, Charlee Brodsky photography exhibition, and Black History Month exhibition.
Featured Live Artist: Daniel Rauschenbach who will be creating art on site during the event.
Featured Musicians: Violinist- Erick Ramos and Pianist- Aaron White

In addition, across the street:
McDonough Museum of Art (Open till 4pm) will be featuring their Spring Exhibitions:
Julia Betts | The Dams are Broken
Anna Chapman | Underworld/Otherworld
Emerging Artist Abby Cipar, | Sometime, Somehow, For You
Will Hutnick | QUEER HORIZONS
Sidney Mullis | Caught Skies and Pillowed Pines (Black Forest)
Solomon Gallery- Cliffe College- Department of Art • YSU (Open till 7:30pm) will be featuring a Black History Month Exhibition:
Crystal Miller- Adornment
The Ward Beecher Planetarium 8-9PM
We are Stars Planetarium Show
!!!ALL AGES WELCOME & FREE TO THE PUBLIC!!!